Head-rest for car-seats.



No. 666,765. Patented F66. 26, lam.

T. s. BEAcH.

HEAD REST FOB CAB SEATS.

(Application led Oct. 8, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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THE'ODORE B. BEACH, OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT.

HEAD-'REST FOR CAR-saire.l

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersuPatent No. 668,765, dated February 26, 1901.

` Application iiled October 8, 1900. Serial No. 32.462.v (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern.'

Be it known that I, 'I'HEoDoRE B. BEACH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seymour, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Head-Rest for Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification. Y

My invention relates to portable head-rests designed for use on the ordinary car-seat backs, the object of the invention being to provide traveling people and the public in general with a portable head rest so constructed that it may be folded into a very small compass for storing in a valise or Satchel andreadily, quickly, and easily be ,attached to the back of the car-seat when desired for use.

With this object in view my invention consists in a padded or upholstered head-rest adjustably mounted upon the upper end of a A longitudinally-slotted metal bar, a bar of the saine width, thickness, and material attached to the lower end of the slotted bar by a knucklejointhinge,another longitudinally-slotted bar attached to the lower end of the lastnamed bar by a similar hinge, two bars for clamping thetop and bottom of the back' of ,'the seat, having screw-threaded ends project'- ing through the longitudinal slots of the upper-and lower bars, and thumb-nuts on the outer ends of these threaded ends to clamp the parts tightly together.l

scat and back equipped with a head-rest constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of the head-rest in working position. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through a head-rest secured upon a seat-back. Fig. 4

is a det-ail perspective View of one of the clamping-arms.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various iigures of the drawings. y

Referring to the drawings Vby letters, A indicates the back of a car-seat of any ordinary or usual construction. Such seat-backs are usually cushioned, and to provide a successful head-rest it must be constructed to hug the cushion closely on the front side without being suiiciently bulky to form much of a D by knuckle-joint hinges B' and B2, the

barrels of the hinges being on the inner surface, leaving the outer surface smooth and uninterrupted by any protuberances. Each of the upper and lower sections C and D -is provided with longitudinal slots, (marked C. and Df,) the lower end of section D projecting slightly below the lower edge of the seatback and the Aupper end of the section C projecting slightly above the upper edge thereof.

E and F indicate clamp-bars, curved to tit the top and bottom edges of the seat-back, the clam p-bar E being provided with a threaded end E to project throughthe slot C' and the clamp-bar F with a threaded end Fto project through the slot D', thumb-nuts G and H being provided to clamp'these bars tightly to the sections C and D at any desired height within the limit of the length of the slots C and D', whereby the clamp-bars may be engaged around the top and bottom of seatbacks of different heights. The upper end of the upper bar Cis provided with another longitudinal slot D2, and a threaded bar I projects from the rear of the cushion or rest K through this slot, a thumb-nut I' being provided to be threaded on said threaded bar to rigidly clamp the cushion-K to the bar C at vany desired verticaladjustment within the IOO cushion K may be vertically adjusted to accommodate persons of different heights.

From the foregoing itis apparent that I have provided a portable headlrestadapted to be tightly secured on car-seat backs of different widths and in which the cushion may be adjusted in height, the whole being so constructed that it maybe taken apart and packed in a very small compass for storage or transxo portation.

The three sections B, C,v and D may be folded together by virtue of their hinges and the clamping-bars and cushion removed and packed with the folded front bar.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The' combination in a head-rest, of sections,

B, C and D, of Iiat metal, connected by inside knuckle-joint hinges, the section D being provided with the longitudinal slot D and the section C with longitudinal slots C and D2 in alinement with each other, the clamp-bars provided with threaded ends passed through slots C and D', the thumbnuts engaging them to adjustably secure the clamp-bars to sections C and D, the cushiony or rest, K, having the rearwardly-projecting, threaded bar passing through the slot D2, and the thumb-nut engaging the threaded bar to adjustably secure the cushion to the section C, all substantially as described.

THEO. BfBEACH. Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. WEYMER, R. B. THRALL. 

